President Trump appears to have abandoned the idea of imposing a flat universal tariff of 10% or 20% on imports from all other countries. But the broad criteria that will be used to assess his new reciprocal tariffs, to be imposed on a country-by-country basis, means that his pivot will probably result in an even bigger increase in average tariffs and US consumer prices.
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